Why is Maria Theresa also bowing as her mother-in-law departs? Was it a sarcastic move or something? I mean, she's already the Empress and her rank is higher than her mother-in-law who is only a duchess.
It's not how it works. Her mother-in-law was not "only a duchess", but the Duchess of Lorraine, sovereign of an independent state, and titular Queen of Jerusalem. What's more, she was by herself a granddaughter of France, a rank that placed her possessor on a par with kings. As such, the Empress owed her reverence in return for her own. These questions of precedence were so complicated that the Duchess of Lorraine herself was unable to see her mother (Louis XIV's sister-in-law) again during Louis XIV's lifetime, because determining the protocol on curtseys, armchairs, etc. would have been an inextricable puzzle.
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Why is Maria Theresa also bowing as her mother-in-law departs? Was it a sarcastic move or something? I mean, she's already the Empress and her rank is higher than her mother-in-law who is only a duchess.
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It's not how it works.
Her mother-in-law was not "only a duchess", but the Duchess of Lorraine, sovereign of an independent state, and titular Queen of Jerusalem.
What's more, she was by herself a granddaughter of France, a rank that placed her possessor on a par with kings.
As such, the Empress owed her reverence in return for her own.
These questions of precedence were so complicated that the Duchess of Lorraine herself was unable to see her mother (Louis XIV's sister-in-law) again during Louis XIV's lifetime, because determining the protocol on curtseys, armchairs, etc. would have been an inextricable puzzle.
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